A team integrated by 70 people has initiated this week the archaeological excavation season in the deposits of Atapuerca (Burgos), which this year will last for a month and a half 30 people are IPHES (Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social) and URV (Universitat Rovira i Virgili de Tarragona) members. In July, the Equipo de Investigación de Atapuerca will reach to 200 people in the different excavated sites. The team works under the codirection of Eudald Carbonell, José Maria Bermúdez de Castro and Juan Luis Arsuaga.

Most of the researchers who excavate in the Atapuerca sites come from different research centers belonging to the Atapuerca Project: Universidad de Burgos (UBU), Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana de Burgos (CENIEH), Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES - Tarragona), Centro de Evolución y Comportamiento Humanos (Universidad Complutense de Madrid - ISCIII) and Universidad de Zaragoza (UNIZAR). Furthermore, there are participants coming from other universities and national and international research centers.